Alafate Abulimiti
I am now a dialogue researcher, and just obtained my PhD from INRIA and ENS/PSL December 14th 2023. My primary area of research is the conversational strategies generation using cutting-edge NLG methods. Conversational strategies often refer to the ways of speaking that carry out the conversation helping the user to accomplish both task and social goals. I am also interested in various domains related to human-human interaction, such as dialogue reasoning, social science, and cognitive science. Before my Ph.D. program, I was a research intern in Université de Paris working on Dialogue and Semantics. I have a computer science engineering degree and a master’s degree in data science from Université de Tours. Lastly, I enjoy playing chess ♟️ (towards a chess master!), reading, and writing in my spare time.
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| Dec 14, 2023 | I have successfully completed my thesis defense! 👨🏻🎓 |
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| Jul 01, 2023 | My paper: “When to generate hedges in peer-tutoring interactions?” is accepted in SIGDIAL 2023 as the main conference paper 🎊, co-authored with Prof. Chloé Clavel and Prof. Justine Cassell. |
| May 01, 2023 | My paper: “How About Kind of Generating Hedges using End-to-End Neural Models?” is accepted in ACL 2023 as the main conference paper 🎊 (I received the notification the same day as my birthday!), co-authored with Prof. Chloé Clavel and Prof. Justine Cassell. |
| Jun 01, 2021 | My paper – By the way, do you like Spider Man?” — A Social Planning Model towards Rapport – is accepted in SemDial 2021 🎊, co-authored with Prof. Justine Cassell and Prof. Jonathan Ginzburg. |
| Oct 01, 2020 | I joined the INRIA and ENS/PSL as a Ph.D. student, under the supervision of Prof. Justine Cassell, Prof. Chloé Clavel and Prof. Jonathan Ginzburg (first year supervision). |